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Cut up your credit cards!
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Paypal is perfectly happy with your current accoutn details, amanndajane. If you really want to pay it from THAT card, why dont you jsut save it's details and use it for paypal only, carefully monitoring when and what you spend. Then the card can be cut up, paypal will remember the details. the aim is that you dont use it elsewhere, then. I have a visa, too, for when amex is not accepted, but thats fine, if you genuinely only use it in emergencies.
The goal is to rid yourself from the emotional attachment! You do not depend on that plastic. You can live without it, and it will be a happier, more secure, more balanced life.
another idea if you are really afraid of emergencies or if you think some expense might come up soon, why dont you reduce the limit on that card, to, say, £200? Hey if you cut it up and and emergency comes, you can still call them up to order a new one (but no cheating - only in emergencies). A few days' wait, and maybe by the time you get it, the emergency has gone away or has been sorted by other means, and then you can chop again!
Come on you can do it, pick up those scissorsTotal debt £3625.07.
Goals: 1.) DFD December 2008 (snowball) / October 2008 (me:o ) 2.) Salary £30kpa (currently £26450pa) 3.) Slim down to 55kg (currently 68kg) 4.) Start stoozing :j
I do not NEED that DVD Tough love club Member #10 -
Nobody cutting up cards today??
On Sunday I have gotten rid of an old Amex. Not working anymore, but still do.
:j come on people keep cuttingTotal debt £3625.07.
Goals: 1.) DFD December 2008 (snowball) / October 2008 (me:o ) 2.) Salary £30kpa (currently £26450pa) 3.) Slim down to 55kg (currently 68kg) 4.) Start stoozing :j
I do not NEED that DVD Tough love club Member #10
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